# Professor Robert Seamans comments on companies' initiatives to expand internet access

1 Faculty News October 11, 2016 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/technology/free-broadband-initiatives-for-poor-and-rural-areas-with-eye-on-future.html?_r=0) -- "Internet service providers 'are trying to go after those folks who are willing to pay less, but not to appeal to those willing to pay more,' said [Robert Seamans](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-seamans), an associate professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a former economist at the Obama White House."

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